Teach Truth

Teach Truth Day of Action, Seattle, August 29, 2021 © Jesse Hagopian

In 2021, the Zinn Education Project (coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change) supported and defended the right to teach truthfully about U.S. history.

With help from you and other supporters, we:

Organized the only public protests of the wave of right-wing anti-history (anti-critical race theory) education bills
Developed lessons and offered workshops on climate justice, McCarthyism, and the New York Times bestselling How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith
Engaged thousands of teachers in online classes with historians of the Black Freedom Struggle
Welcomed over 17,000 new teachers to our people’s history network, now 140,000 strong and growing
Formed and supported 100 Teaching for Black Lives study groups, supporting educators in 29 states
Produced a national report analyzing K–12 curriculum standards on Reconstruction across the country as part of our Teach Reconstruction Campaign — to be released in January